WordNet
n. (computer science) the rate at which data is transferred (as by a modem) [syn: bps]
Usage examples of "bits per second".
On the other hand, modern electronic computers are capable of processing information at a rate of 1016 to 1017 bits per second, compared to a peak rate ten billion times slower in the brain.
Hacker tourists, by contrast, tend to think in terms of bits per second.
Even then the signal was so faint, so distorted, that the effective transmission rate was just a few bits per second.
My guess is that the Eater uses electromagnetic waves to send signals across itself, so its natural flow rate is not the petty human scale of ten or twenty bits per second.
A high-speed data link from ground to space is a few hundred million bits per second.
A bar at the top of the screen showed that the data was coming it at a rate of 57,000 bits per second.
A bar at the top of the screen showed that the data was coming in at a rate of 57,000 bits per second.
We must get in as many bits per second as possible and pray we get what we need before we lose contact.
Helaine sat rigidly as the search continued through the alphabet at a rate of thousands of bits per second.
He felt Victor coming online as well, creating a massively parallel processing array crunching its way through possible code groups at a rate of some trillions of bits per second.
The machine's computer began loading the diffraction data into the GeneDyne net, where it was sent across a dedicated land line at 110,000 bits per second to the GeneDyne supercomputer in Boston.